This week, Worldmeets.US Managing Editor William Kern talks to Patrik Etschmayer, one of Switzerland's leading columnists, about what Europeans think about the NSA's mass surveillance, the FED's decision not to begin winding down its policy of monetary easing, the situation in Syria and Iran, the latest IPCC report on climate change, and the shutdown of the U.S. federal government. Read some of Patrik's recent columns about the United States: http://bitly.com/bundles/worldmeetsus/1h Worldmeets.US is a non-profit media project aimed at better educating the American people and creating relationships between Americans and people from other nations.